Evaluation of Stress Intensity and Anxiety Level in Preoperative Period of Cardiac Patients

Table 6

Analysis of the correlation of preoperative hospital variables and patient’s feeling of anxiety and stress.

Perioperative hospital variables	Correlation of the Spearman rank order
	Feeling of anxiety	Level of anxiety
Surgery	0.87	0.93
Illness	0.75	0.70
Complication	0.65	0.68
Pain	0.70	0.65
Suffering	0.63	0.61
Anesthesia	0.80	0.61
Admission to hospital	0.60	0.58
Incertitude	0.59	0.60